Kickin’ the bucket

With graduation quickly approaching, I’ve found myself looking back on my college experience and wishing I had done more. In my five years at Kennesaw I’ve had lots of firsts, traveled to new places, took on leadership roles that I never imagined myself in, and became a completely different person. But during my first three(ish) years of school, I was in two very serious relationships where my life revolved around them. I missed out on a lot of opportunities during that time and completely lost who I was as a person.

As the summer before my senior year came to an end I realized that I hadn’t done anything “worth while” and my tight knit group of friends was well, small. It didn’t take long to decide that I was going to dedicate the last bit of my college career to myself. I was serious about staying single, branching out to meet new people, getting out of my comfort zone and forcing myself to experience new things. I was determined to say “yes” to any offer thrown my way and to make up for the past three years.

In the time since making that decision, my life has changed drastically. I’ve attended three music festivals, an insane amount of concerts, visited three new states, dyed my hair blonde, ran a 5K, went alum in my sorority, gained the greatest group of friends that I could have ever asked for, and sadly had to move out of the house that I’d shared with my two best friends for three years.

Even though it was very casual and short-lived, I may have failed at staying single just three months after starting this journey (yikes). But because of that relationship I was given one of my best friends, Jamie. And for that I am so thankful.

Jamo and I (and Jon Langston!!!)

Loving how this “yes” lifestyle was going, I decided I wanted to do more. With the help of Jamo and a few other friends, I decided to make a summer bucket list of things that I wanted to accomplish before my last year of school began. The list started off very small but began to grow rapidly as time went on. I haven’t been able to cross off very many things because life always seems to get in the way but the things I’ve been able to do have been fantastic. From this list I’ve learned that I’m insanely in love with yoga (especially bikram yoga), I eat way too much food and I don’t go to enough museums.